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Access Instructions
for Users with Disabilities

Access Instructions Table of Contents

How the Gayman site is Organized


The Gayman is designed to make navigation for all users as simple as possible, and attempts to be compatible at all times with text-only browsers and screen readers. All images make use of alt-text tags and descriptions, or D links. Text links for navigation may be found at the bottom of each section. (To learn more about alt-text tags and D links, see Instructions for Blind and Visually Impaired Users.) Audio clips are transcribed.


The Gayman site consists of a main page, which offers basic information about the Gayman, links to the current issue and back issues, and a link to the guestbook.

Some of the humor of the site is related to following links to other sites, (for example the Presbyterian Layman) which may not be accessible. The "back" function of your browser is key to being able to navigate this site.

This is an evolving service and we welcome your input. Accessible online services are a new invention and we want you to help us improve them. Please send us mail with your suggestions and comments -- you can help us make the Gayman accessible to everyone!

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Instructions for Blind and Visually Impaired Users


These pages have been designed to be used with a screen-reader.

Described images are followed by a D (in some cases, the D precedes the image). The D is a selectable hyperlink that will bring you to a textual description of the image. When linked text leads to an image on a different site, the D hyperlink follows that text.

The description is typically two or three sentences, and may contain hyperlinks. At the end of the description, use the "back" function to return to the image.

All images on this site are also accompanied by a two-to three-word alt-text tag. These tags are visible if your browser supports the alt-text function.

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Instructions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users


Transcript links, denoted by a T are provided next to audio links.

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The Gay Committee followed the lead of WGBH Boston's National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) in developing accessible services for this site. To learn more about NCAM's activities regarding Web access for people with disabilities, click here to visit the Web Access Project. 1